Foreword / Rebecca Dingo -- Confronting the doxa of the nation-state: transnational rhetorics and women world leaders -- Daughters of destiny: narrations of the nation-state in autobiographies of women world leaders -- Rewriting public histories: political women, embodied mimicry, and the biopic -- Access denied: creating a corporate rhetor for women world leaders -- Will the real "iron lady" please stand up?: Cyborgian politics from Margaret Thatcher to Hillary Clinton -- Appendixes: A. List of women world leaders -- B. Brief biographical information of political women in this book
Summary
This project analyzes how political women rhetorically perform-discursively, visually, and physically-their positions of power and how these performances are read, time again, against and with other women who have held similar positions in different geopolitical locations
